A friend of mine was recently telling me about taking his son and son\u2019s friends to a movie.\u00a0 At the end, rather that talking to each other , they all got on their cell phones and started texting each other and friends who were not there about the movie.\u00a0 It was described to me as one of those revealing moments where my friend realized that the way we communicate is changing in such a fundamental way, and the reach of our communications is so broad real time, that the very fabric of our social existence morphs every few seconds.<\/p>\n
We all seem to be waiting to experience the \u201cgreatness\u201d that is coming with the implementations of HR social medias.\u00a0 The possibilities abound and the theories are tremendous.\u00a0 At the same time, we\u2019ve all experienced the realities of the downside.\u00a0 Anyone who has a iPhone or Blackberry understands the incredible portability and ubiquitosity ((I reserve the right to make up new words whenever I want to)) of facebook and twitter.\u00a0 I myself recently posted on the systematicHR twitter page that I felt like missing 5 minutes of feeds pushed me out of the HR loop.\u00a0 There really is that much going on, and some HR thought leaders are literally pushing out hundreds of tweets a day.<\/p>\n
Social medias have the wild possibility of changing the way we live our lives, they literally change the landscape and timeline of our social existence on a minute by minute basis.\u00a0 Some find these to be fascinating times, and I think they are.\u00a0 But treating them without some reservations might just get us into trouble.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all also sat in restaurants with people and found first hand what incredible conversation stoppers social medias on our portable devices can be.\u00a0 Kids are starting to have trouble doing homework because they can\u2019t turn off the messaging out of facebook.\u00a0 Heck \u2013 not even in restaurants or at home in personal situations, in half of the meetings I go to, someone is sneaking peeks at their blackberry under the table and doing e-mails or facebook updates.<\/p>\n
Real time communications are a beautiful thing.\u00a0 I firmly believe that the transformation in how we work and interact with broader spheres than was not possible a few short years ago will bring tremendous advances in innovation and service models.\u00a0 But we have also been proceeding down the path that these social medias will self govern \u2013 people will moderate the community\u2019s \u201cbad behavior.\u201d\u00a0 The problem is that in everyday life, we have seen that \u201cbad behavior\u201d permeates every event and activity.\u00a0 We simply can\u2019t help ourselves and our physical, face to face interactions seem to be suffering.\u00a0 How do you encourage this and govern it at the same time?<\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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